2016 September Brand Sponsors

Accordant Media

Accordant Media makes advertising investments more successful for marketers by unlocking the value of audience data. Through a unique combination of sophisticated data management and activation technologies, expert service and industry-leading transparency, we give marketers more insights and accountability to drive (cost) effective results at scale.

Our comprehensive Accordant ATS™ solution has helped us attract leading marketing teams as our clients. Accordant, founded in 2010, was established by digital industry leaders from Avenue A | Razorfish, Aegis Media, Akamai and DoubleClick.

Accordant Media has offices in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago and London. www.accordantmedia.com

CofactorMarketers know “how” and “where” to target their audiences online, but they still struggle to say something meaningful, personal and actionable – something that leads to an actual in-store sale.

Cofactor enables marketers to overcome this challenge by empowering them to "micro-message" consumers with the same precision and efficiency with which they currently "micro-target" them.

Whether it’s managing and delivering versioned, localized content for national media campaigns, or a creating custom experiences on a brand or retailer website, Cofactor can easily onboard and activate ALL content to deliver more intelligent advertising across ANY channel or device.

Digilant

Digilant, a global programmatic media pioneer, partners with the world’s leading agencies and brands to provide customized and scalable programmatic media solutions. Powered by insightful and actionable data science, Digilant’s display, video, mobile, and social solutions are delivered through a world-class service offering. The company’s advanced technology platform, which includes a data management platform (DMP), connects brands with relevant and unique audiences by activating first party, third party and its own proprietary data. Headquartered in Boston, Digilant has offices in Barcelona, Bogota, Lima, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, Monterrey, Santiago de Chile, Sao Paulo, and across the U.S. For more information, please visit www.digilant.com or follow the company on Twitter at @Digilant_US. Digilant is an ispDigital Group Company.

Factual

Factual is a neutral data company with the mission of making data accessible to anyone that needs it. We provide high quality location data to publishers and ad platforms globally, enabling advertisers to access Factual data through their preferred media partners. Our Geopulse product suite provides flexible and highly sophisticated location based audiences and proximity targeting, powered by Factual’s best in class Global Places data.

Hathway

Hathway is a mobile innovation agency connecting people in new ways. We are thinkers and makers bringing together meaningful brand experiences, digital products and emerging technology to help companies move like innovative startups.

Since 2008, Hathway has been helping brands like Transamerica, Jamba Juice and Behr Paint put useful apps and messages in the hands of customers at the right time and place. We turn insights from mobile and social data into innovative mobile applications and responsive websites – digital products that not only engage users, but deliver real results for our clients.

HIRO Media

HIRO’s proprietary technology — together with its team of industry experts — have created one of the leading online-video ecosystems in the marketplace, enabling all of partners to thrive, prosper, and improve their performance. As a global internet media company, founded in 2006, we serve three symbiotic clients: advertisers, publishers, and content creators.

HIRO is dedicated to delivering a world-class Internet entertainment media network for viewers, who watch content on any Internet-connected screen.

Simply put: We represent an end-to-end video solution that helps advertisers, content owners, and publishers optimize their profits and performance.MediaMathMediaMath is the software company for marketers.

Our tools enable marketers to reach the audiences they want at the scale they need.

Since 2007, when we created the first programmatic platform for marketers, MediaMath’s global infrastructure, vast partner network and quantitative approach have delivered transformative results – truly strength in numbers.

Marketing is in the middle of a multi-decade transformation. The industry is shifting from broad to narrow audiences - from siloed channels to customer journeys across devices - and from counting user clicks to declaring success based on customer delight.

MediaMath is partnering with the most forward-thinking marketers and agencies to accelerate these changes. We build on the leading edge of technology, hyper-focused on scalable innovation, resulting in a history of industry firsts. Our offering marries software – purpose-built for marketers – with premium partners, data and training.

MomentFeed

MomentFeed is a localized digital marketing platform based on the information that uniquely defines each individual store allowing the enterprise to target, communicate, listen and engage with consumers in and around the locations where products are sold. MomentFeed manages digital location data across premier social and search networks and allows marketing to leverage the data to localize search, paid, and social to enhance the customer experience, increase engagement and drive offline transactions. With the reach of brand, the relevance of local and the power of digital, MomentFeed empowers cooperative marketing from the CMO to the store manager and helps brands deliver localized marketing at scale.NetBaseNetBase is the leading enterprise social analytics solution for top consumer brands to drive real business results. We deliver the best consumer intelligence at an immense scale from all sources - social, digital, customer care, surveys etc. NetBase transforms consumer data into action to fuel every aspect of a business.

NielsenNielsen understands the importance of knowing what consumers watch and buy. That’s our passion and the very heart of our business. We study consumers to give you the most complete view of trends and habits worldwide. And we’re constantly evolving, not only in terms of where we measure, or who we measure, but in how our insights can help you drive profitable growth.

We provide marketers with measured consumer data to reach their desired online and offline audiences more effectively and efficiently. Advertisers and agencies are able to develop powerful campaigns and send their online brand messaging to consumers based on their offline behaviors.

We continue to develop better solutions to help you meet the needs of today’s consumers, and find out where they’re headed next. So let’s put our heads together. We’ll bring our insight to your business and help you grow.

ownerIQownerIQ, "The Q" digitally connects retailers and brands through the power of second-party data, providing transparency, scalability, and relevancy within digital marketing. ownerIQ changes the way retailers, brands and e-commerce websites run their digital advertising campaigns, reaching consumers both online and in-store. The Q has the largest and most transparent second-party data marketplace, called "The Qniverse," which aggregates over 1 Billion online shopping behaviors of more than 200 million U.S. consumers each month from retailers, product brands and e-commerce sites. Our fully integrated programmatic stack, built specifically for the needs of marketers in the Retail ecosystem, enables our advertisers to leverage our partners' 1st party data pools to power their e-commerce campaigns, retail initiatives, and prospecting programs. ownerIQ was recently named in the 2015 Ad Age BtoB Best Awards, as CIOReview Magazine's Top 50 Retail Solutions, Digiday Signal Awards, Boston Business Journal's Hottest Tech Companies to Watch, and Editor's Choice Award from Shopper Marketing Magazine. For more information, visit www.ownerIQ.com.

Qualia Media

Qualia, an omni-channel data intelligence company, empowers organizations to deliver seamless consumer experiences across all devices, from intent to conversion. The Qualia Data Intelligence Platform combines its IQ Decision Engine™ with BlueCava’s cross-device graph to create a closed-loop, device agnostic, audience insights solution. Trusted by leading brands, agencies and marketing technology providers, Qualia’s cloud-based platform continuously identifies in-market consumers on all of their devices and digital touchpoints, enabling real-time, omni-channel targeting, reach, measurement and attribution. The company is headquartered in NYC and has offices in Chicago, Irvine, Los Angeles and San Francisco. For additional information, visit www.qualia-media.com.

RadiumOneRadiumOne is a leading global marketing technology company providing programmatic audience buying solutions for the world’s top brands and agencies. RadiumOne’s platform connects brands to their next customers by incorporating valuable, proprietary data about behaviors, actions and interests demonstrated by consumers through the company’s proprietary mobile and desktop software. Using insights and data intelligence, RadiumOne helps marketers activate customer engagement in real-time across different devices, locations and screens. Based in San Francisco, RadiumOne has offices across the US, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific. To learn more about RadiumOne, please visit http://www.radiumone.com.

Rakuten Marketing

Rakuten Marketing is the global leader in digital marketing solutions that empower marketers to realize the full potential of marketing. Built on a robust, scalable platform that includes unique data, proprietary technology and advanced user-identification capabilities, marketers deliver ad experiences that engage and influence across affiliate, display, mobile, search, social and video channels. Integrated multichannel solutions, along with consumer insights and unparalleled client focus, equip marketers to drive performance with increased efficiency and greater productivity.

Rakuten Marketing is a division of Rakuten Inc. (4755: TOKYO), one of the world's leading Internet service companies. The company is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Australia, Brazil, Japan, the United Kingdom, and throughout the United States. Follow us on Twitter or learn more at http://rakutenmarketing.com.

ResonateResonate generates higher ROI for communications professionals by increasing the relevance of their messages and the effectiveness of their targeting.

Our unique and highly advanced data science brings psychographic data at scale so you can move beyond demographics and observed behaviors to understand why individuals do what they do. You can then communicate in ways that better drive engagement, conversion, and much greater return on every dollar invested.

Founded in 2008 and backed by world-class venture firms like Greycroft, iNovia, and most recently Revolution Growth, Resonate is consistently recognized as an innovator in applying data and technology to make marketing more relevant.

Social Native

How do you create engaging branded content for your owned social channels? How about content for your paid ads? Finding relevant, engaging, and high-performing content is difficult & expensive.

Social Native is a technology company reinventing how brands create content. Social Native connects brands with content creators to create beautiful, high-performing and cost-effective branded content at scale. With 75 customers and over 14 million creators, Social Native is the fastest growing content marketplace.

Available in 58 markets globally, Spotify reaches a highly engaged audience on desktop, mobile, tablet, home entertainment systems and more. The average cross-platform Spotify user spends 148 minutes listening throughout their day, while working, studying, driving, exercising, relaxing at home and more. This increasingly mobile audience is twice as likely to have a strong emotional connection to brands (Source: comScore Music Impact Study, 2014).

TeadsTeads, founded in 2011, is the inventor of native video advertising and a global monetization platform for publishers. Publishers work with Teads to create brand new video inventory and monetize it through Teads sales force, their own sales force, or programmatic buying.

Teads’ outstream solutions encompass a series of formats inserted deep into media content, like the inRead playing inside articles. It is changing the game within the video advertising market by creating unprecedented levels of premium inventory, which did not exist before.

Brands and agencies can access this top-tier, premium inventory, available on the web and on mobile, through programmatic or managed services. Through its managed services capabilities, the Teads team execute on their client’s behalf using its platform.

The Exchange LabThe Exchange Lab is One for All. One company connected to the world's largest programmatic digital media marketplace. The company’s unique multi-platform solution unifies all of the top demand side platforms (DSPs), marketing technologies and exchanges into a single touch-point that drives the highest level of efficiency for advertisers.

The Exchange Lab is powered by Proteus, a creative and innovative trading platform which is integrated into the largest and most respected DSPs including; MediaMath, AppNexus and The Trade Desk. Founded in 2007, The Exchange Lab is a privately held company that serves more than 700 clients including major brands such as A&W, Virgin Holidays, and Volkswagen among others, across 50 markets worldwide with offices in London, New York, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Singapore.

V12 GroupV12 Group is an offline data provider. Through proprietary technology and triple verification sourcing, advertisers can reach over 4,000 audiences across 250MM devices in consumer, B2B, CPG and automotive records.

YPYP is a leading local marketing solutions provider in the U.S. dedicated to connecting national brands with local consumers, and we’ve been doing this for over 100 years.

YP solutions and services are backed by thousands of media consultants and customer service professionals in markets across the U.S. with relationships spanning nearly half a million advertisers, including many leading national brands.

For more information on YP and YP Marketing Solutions, visit national.yp.com.